Public safetyFinding
Vermont should give judges more power to hold people in jail before trial.
Vermont's constitution guarantees bail for most defendants, with exceptions for some serious crimes. This would widen the cases in which judges can order someone held until trial.
Phil Scott
We also need to make it easier to revoke bail, limit the ability to reduce or suspend sentences, seal criminal records instead of erasing them and provide more tools to hold repeat offenders accountable, including funding to expand last year's pilot for pre-trial supervision.
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